AMERICAN PROHIBITION.
COAST WARFARE. RUM-RUNNER HANGED. Press Association-Electric Telenrapn-Coojng!: (Received Monday, 5.50 a.m.) MIAMI, Saturday. James Horace Alderman, the king of the rum-runners on the Florida coast, and regarded as the most desperate sea criminal of modern times in America, was hanged to-day. About a year ago lie killed two coastguards and a Federal secret service man.
He captured a coastguard patrol boat and almost succeeded in blowing it to fragments before he was captured. Alderman, who is the only rum-run-ner ever executed in Uncle Sam’s coast warfare, left £200,000 to his family, with this note: ‘‘Remember, violation of the law does not get you anything but trouble. I am readv to pay.”U.S.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 August 1929, Page 5
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